Hi Bdale,
Thanks for looking after tar for 25 years :-O
I would like to adopt & maintain tar. I am using some of the 'newer' features at many sites that the current bugs are about, like remote archives, zstd and incremental; also well versed in C. I have been a DD since 2000.
Looking at the list of bugs I am thinking most of them should be forwarded to upstream. There are some low hanging fruits like #892273, and there are good few that will be wontfix like #310323 .
Can I fix for example #892273 and upload a new version, or did you have something else in mind?
Regards,